Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

Over 50 small reactors generating up to 500 megawatts of electricity have been built over the past half-century. Their median build time has been eight years. By contrast, large reactors have been ...

For 25 years, MIT Technology Review has put together this package, which highlights the technologies that we think are going ...

You might imagine nuclear power plants as behemoth facilities spanning hundreds of acres. Nuclear microreactors, by contrast, could sit on land the size of a football field and power a whole town.

While the energy crisis has a well-known public policy dimension, it also threatens the capabilities of the US military.

Commercial fusion power plants may be cheaper and easier to build thanks to a breakthrough by TAE Technologies that allows reactors to generate their own containment fields without the need for ...

NASA first announced that it would put a reactor on the moon “within a decade” in 2021. By 2024, the agency said the target ...

The United States is moving from concept art to hardware in its push for a permanent foothold on the Moon, and nuclear power ...

Recently, another reactor in France reported a major tungsten breakthrough: its toroidal tokamak, clad in tungsten, ...

A North Carolina-headquartered developer of small modular nuclear power plants announced it has an agreement with the U.S.

In the shadow of a service outage that affected millions of users, outside of Richland, Washington, internet commerce giant Amazon is building the first of a series of modular nuclear power stations ...

China’s EAST fusion reactor surpasses density limits, paving the way for advancements in sustainable fusion energy production ...